Business, Government & Society

Business, Government & Society Launches "Ethics Unwrapped"

“Ethics Unwrapped,” a series of free ethics teaching videos, was launched in Fall 2012 by the McCombs School of Business. The videos are available at the Ethics Unwrapped website.

McCombs' Newest Department

The Business, Government, & Society department focuses research and teaching on the regulatory, political, legal and ethical environment of business. Today’s global marketplace is more competitive, more transparent, more culturally and politically diverse, and more fluid than ever before. Future business leaders will need to be able to navigate the legal, ethical and cultural demands of government and society. The BGS department helps students cultivate the skills needed to successfully manage the dynamic business environment of the future.

Department News

Prof. Werner elected to SMS Stakeholder interest group position

Prof. Tim Werner has been elected to serve as representative-at-large for the Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. Werner’s two-year term will begin in January 2017.

Profs. Werner and Richter's research featured in the Daily Texan

Professor Spence presents paper at national energy policy conference

On November 17th and 18th David Spence co-hosted and presented a paper at a national energy policy conference at the University of Texas. The conference, entitled " Regional Challenges and Opportunities in Energy Transformations," attracted legal and public policy scholars from across the country to examine the rapid changes underway in the energy sector. The conference was so sponsored by the University of Texas and the University of Minnesota. Professor Spence presented his paper, "Paradoxes of Decarbonization," at the conference.

Professor Spence's op-ed on Fortune.com

On November 14, Professor Spence's commentary titled "Why President-Elect Trump Could Disappoint the Coal Miners Counting on Him" was featured on the Fortune Insiders website. Read the full article here.

Prof. Werner’s Research Published in ASQ

Tim Werner’s paper “Blacklisted Businesses: Social Activists’ Challenges and the Disruption of Corporate Political Activity” (co-authored with Mae McDonnell of the University of Pennsylvania) has been published by Administrative Science Quarterly. The paper is available here, and a podcast in which Profs. McDonnell and Werner discuss the paper is available here.

Ethics at McCombs Advisory Council Fall Meeting

On October 17, Cara Biasucci, Ian Ishak, Robert Prentice and the EthicsUnwrapped Video Series and Educational Program hosted the semi-annual meeting of the Ethics at McCombs Advisory Council and various of its members who strongly support ethics education at McCombs and elsewhere, including Marty Meekins of Los Angeles, Richard Kinkaid of Chicago, Bill Jackson of Ft. Worth, Mitch Kreindler of Houston, Stephan James of Spicewood, and Charlie Teeple of Austin.

Guest speaker Emerson Tiller presents to BGS faculty

On October 14, Emerson Tiller of the Kellogg School of Business and the Northwestern University School of Law presented a paper to the BGS faculty entitled"The Political Economy of Promissory Estoppel.